Firetero is a firewall for a single computer. Default setup works for any workstation. For a server, sample configuration is available for most common daemons.

• Easy to use: default configuration allows all client programs (browse web, send email…) but denies access to your computer from the Internet
• Uses iptables syntax: no new language to learn, leverage your existing skills
• Example configuration for
  • Servers: Web, SSH
  • Traffic shaping (initial support)
• Uses standard /etc/init.d script and keeps configuration in standard place /etc/firetero
• Code is troughoutly commented, easy to read and verify.
• Creates human readable firewall (for example, ‘iptables -L’ output is readable)

Firetero is based on Karvinen 2003-2006: “Firewall for Single Host with Iptables”.

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Packaging for Ubuntu. Graphical user interface for opening server holes. Testing in different networks and distributions.

This is what firetero-gui could look like. This is just a mockup, such graphical user interface does not yet exist.